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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
there are many facets to the american dream including a strong belief in freedom and a powerful desire to consume an historian first coined the phrase american dream in 1931 he said it meant more than having motor cars and high wages but for many americans that s exactly what it was the seeds for america s consumer expectations were planted during a time of widespread scarcity the great depression